Would it help if there were some kind of commonly understood shorthand way of saying “I am writing this post in a shortened format and thus recognize there are many missing caveats and examples, but I may continue to expand on it in future updates and if you would like for me to address or clarify anything feel free to leave a comment on that… [etc. etc.]”
At the very least, there have been times where I have wished that I could say a disclaimer like that. Of course, someone can just say all of that, or that might just say things like “take this with a grain of salt” (although that phrase doesn’t convey the full message/meaning).
I have considered just writing such a caveat list as a shortform and linking to it like that, although part of me would like for it to be somewhat easily and widely (within the community) understandable at a few words, similar to saying “Epistemic status: speculative.”
(Then again, I think that in many cases my communicative discomfort has been unjustified/irrational, so it the main value of such a disclaimer could be setting my mind at ease and providing a CYA in the slight chance it becomes relevant. In such case simply linking to such a shortform would probably be fine.)
I liek this ! Sharing things that are in “working draft” or something. I like the idea of someone having a half-baked theory, sharing it, and then developing it as comments evolve or something.
It doesnt’ seem like the standard blog format is suited to this though.
I’ve just cross-posted Elizabeth’s post on “Butterfly Ideas,” which I really like and which I think discusses related topics:
“Sometimes talking with my friends is like intellectual combat, which is great. I am glad I have such strong cognitive warriors on my side. But not all ideas are ready for intellectual combat. If I don’t get my friend on board with this, some of them will crush an idea before it gets a chance to develop, which feels awful and can kill off promising avenues of investigation.”
Would it help if there were some kind of commonly understood shorthand way of saying “I am writing this post in a shortened format and thus recognize there are many missing caveats and examples, but I may continue to expand on it in future updates and if you would like for me to address or clarify anything feel free to leave a comment on that… [etc. etc.]” At the very least, there have been times where I have wished that I could say a disclaimer like that. Of course, someone can just say all of that, or that might just say things like “take this with a grain of salt” (although that phrase doesn’t convey the full message/meaning).
You can say:
I have considered just writing such a caveat list as a shortform and linking to it like that, although part of me would like for it to be somewhat easily and widely (within the community) understandable at a few words, similar to saying “Epistemic status: speculative.” (Then again, I think that in many cases my communicative discomfort has been unjustified/irrational, so it the main value of such a disclaimer could be setting my mind at ease and providing a CYA in the slight chance it becomes relevant. In such case simply linking to such a shortform would probably be fine.)
I liek this ! Sharing things that are in “working draft” or something. I like the idea of someone having a half-baked theory, sharing it, and then developing it as comments evolve or something.
It doesnt’ seem like the standard blog format is suited to this though.
I’ve just cross-posted Elizabeth’s post on “Butterfly Ideas,” which I really like and which I think discusses related topics:
“Sometimes talking with my friends is like intellectual combat, which is great. I am glad I have such strong cognitive warriors on my side. But not all ideas are ready for intellectual combat. If I don’t get my friend on board with this, some of them will crush an idea before it gets a chance to develop, which feels awful and can kill off promising avenues of investigation.”
I like that post a lot! The people I tend to share early stages ideas are ones that try to make it better / understand it more or something.
Written hastily; please comment if you’d like further elaboration